[Commlist] Call for Proposals: “Writing, Thinking, and Learning with AI: Exploring Relationships of Rhetoric and Artificial Intelligence”

*“Writing, Thinking, and Learning with AI: Exploring Relationships of 
Rhetoric and Artificial Intelligence” *
/Join us October 13–14, 2023, for a virtual conference hosted by the 
SUNY Council on Writing and the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony 
Brook University./

The recent attention given to the topic of artificial intelligence has 
been largely attributed to the introduction of ChatGPT, the 
conversational (and controversial) chatbot released by OpenAI. ChatGPT, 
itself an assemblage of many technologies like large language models, 
neural networks, and natural language processing that we colloquially 
simplify to “AI,” represents only a portion of the larger landscape of 
machine learning and artificial intelligence development that has taken 
place over decades. But the sudden explosion of public access to 
sophisticated generative AI programs like ChatGPT has pushed into the 
mainstream the idea that machines can “write” (perhaps even in ways some 
readers see as cogent and well-reasoned) in response to open-ended 
questions. What does it mean to practice rhetoric in this age of 
artificial intelligence? What does it mean, more broadly, to write, 
think, and learn? How does this new development in “writing technology” 
reshape our understanding and practice as human rhetors? What are the 
areas of concern and/or potential, and how do we address them in 
different disciplines and contexts? What rhetorical relationships of AI 
and writing, thinking, and learning might we wish to amplify or attenuate?

We invite teachers and scholars across all disciplines to come together 
to explore the broader implications of generative AI tools like ChatGPT 
for the future of rhetoric, writing, thinking, and learning. This year, 
we want to specifically invite scholars/ educators from other 
disciplines who are interested in how their own subjects and classrooms 
are being influenced by rhetoric and AI. We welcome panels and 
presentations that engage with how we may carve new pathways of pedagogy 
and scholarship by advancing our understanding of new modes of 
artificial intelligence, addressing what we value about human agency as 
writers, and exploring how we may use and shape this emerging technology.

Some ways to engage with the theme include but are not limited to the 
following topics:

  * Ethics of persuasion by and with AI
  * Critical thinking and computer thinking
  * The ethics of using language-generation software in student writing,
    and the ethics of “detecting” such use
  * Existing and emerging AI developments and platforms likely to
    influence writing and rhetoric in the future
  * Enhancing learning and pedagogy (in/across the disciplines) with
    artificial intelligence
  * Dominant discourses and rhetorics of AI
  * Student agency and artificial intelligence
  * Public discourse and perception of AI, writing, and/or education
  * Social change and artificial intelligence
  * AI and linguistic diversity, neurodiversity, and equity
  * Hermeneutic and ontological grounding in the age of AI

We encourage submissions from faculty, graduate students, and 
independent scholars across the disciplines within and beyond SUNY. In 
addition to traditional abstract and panel presentation proposals, we 
seek out unique submissions that play with conference form, for example 
by (1) assembling workshops and discussions to address a central 
question or problematic regarding AI and rhetoric to prompt community 
conversations, (2) bringing together a panel with scholars from rhetoric 
and writing with experts in other fields, and (3) preparing a 
demonstration or performance of inventive and artistic uses of AI, 
writing, and rhetoric.

Please submit your proposals via this Google Form 
<https://forms.gle/HV7gGHe45Wb57e2y5>: 
https://forms.gle/HV7gGHe45Wb57e2y5 
<https://forms.gle/HV7gGHe45Wb57e2y5>. Deadline for submissions is 
Friday August 4, 2023, by 11:59 p.m. Eastern.

Questions should be directed to (sunycouncilonwriting /at/ gmail.com) and more 
information will be available on our website: 
https://sunycouncilonwriting.org/conferences/ 
<https://sunycouncilonwriting.org/conferences/>


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